- Update to version 0.20.0 with the following features:
* Exact versions: Spack did not previously have a way to distinguish a
version if it was a prefix of some other version. For example, @3.2 would
match 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, etc. You can now match exactly 3.2 with @=3.2.
This is useful, for example, if you need to patch only the 3.2 version of a
package
* More stable concretization: Now, spack concretize will only concretize the
new portions of the environment and will not change existing parts of an
environment unless you specify --force. This has always been true for
unify:false, but not for unify:true and unify:when_possible environments.
* The concretizer has a new --reuse-deps argument that only reuses dependencies.
That is, it will always treat the roots of your environment as it would with
--fresh. This allows you to upgrade just the roots of your environment while
keeping everything else stable
* Specs in buildcaches can be referenced by hash: Previously, you could run
spack buildcache list and see the hashes in buildcaches, but referring to
them by hash would fail. You can now run commands like spack spec and
spack install and refer to buildcache hashes directly, e.g. spack install
/abc123
* New package and buildcache index websites
Our public websites for searching packages have been completely revamped
and updated. You can check them out here:
Package Index: https://packages.spack.io
Buildcache Index: https://cache.spack.io
Both are searchable and more interactive than before. Currently major
releases are shown; UI for browsing develop snapshots is coming soon.
* Default CMake and Meson build types are now Release: Spack has historically
defaulted to building with optimization and debugging, but packages like
llvm can be enormous with debug turned on. Our default build type for all
Spack packages is now Release. This has a number of benefits:
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1088985
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/network:cluster/spack?expand=0&rev=72
- updated to version 0.17.0
(Upstream feature/bug references (<ID>) are relative to
https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/<ID>).
* New concretizer is now default
The new concretizer introduced as an experimental feature in v0.16.0
is now the default (#25502). The new concretizer is based on the
clingo logic programming system,
and it enables us to do much higher quality and faster dependency solving
The old concretizer is still available via the concretizer: original
setting, but it is deprecated and will be removed in v0.18.0.
* Binary Bootstrapping
To make it easier to use the new concretizer and binary packages,
Spack now bootstraps clingo and GnuPG from public binaries. If it
is not able to bootstrap them from binaries, it installs them from
source code. With these changes, you should still be able to clone Spack
and start using it almost immediately.
* Reuse existing packages (experimental)
The most wanted feature from our
2020 user survey and
the most wanted Spack feature of all time (#25310). spack install,
spack spec, and spack concretize now have a --reuse option, which
causes Spack to minimize the number of rebuilds it does. The --reuse
option will try to find existing installations and binary packages locally
and in registered mirrors, and will prefer to use them over building new
versions. This will allow users to build from source far less than in
prior versions of Spack. This feature will continue to be improved, with
configuration options and better CLI expected in v0.17.1. It will become
the default concretization mode in v0.18.0.
* Better error messages
We have improved the error messages generated by the new concretizer by
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/931785
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/network:cluster/spack?expand=0&rev=35
- added test for /etc/spack/no_rpm_trigger
- added %triggerin and %triggerpostun for the packages which
can be detected by spack
- updated to 0.16.0
- added find for external packages
- added dockerfile for leap
* added patchfile added-dockerfile-for-opensuse-leap-15.patch
- Add documentation (man and info pages, pdf doesn't build
currently).
* Do not ship documentation sources.
- Do not distribute Dockerfiles and other container related
material, yet. This needs to be fixed so that the samples
work with SUSE.
- Fully integrate spack into SUSE directory structure, fix
paths where required.
* Fix setup scripts to work correctly in above environment.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/854051
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/network:cluster/spack?expand=0&rev=3
